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China's eerie ghost cities a 'symptom' of the country's economic troubles and housing bubble. Fancy villas, high-rise apartment blocks, lakes, parks and sprawling road networks: Ghost cities in China have it all. Just one crucial element is missing — the people. Key points: There may be as many as 64 million empty apartments in China Many people buy the properties as an investment with no intention of ever moving in Author says ghost cities show growth is driven by debt in China Built for a population that never came, about 50 of these surreal sites lay desolate across the country. But still the construction continues. These new cities are usually built in rural areas on the outskirts of existing cities. Designed for populations numbering in the hundreds of thousands, the mass construction projects can include towering high-rise condominiums, huge shopping centres, city squares, street lights and replicas of cities in Europe and elsewhere. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-27/china-ghost-cities-show-growth-driven-by-debt/9912186